Grand Theft Auto 5 has received several updates over the years, adding new content, missions, heists and more to GTA Online, but the game has never received a story expansion since its initial release in 2013. Previous reports have mentioned abandoned plans for story DLCs. for the game, and more recently, a leaked GTA 5 database file suggested that developers Rockstar Games canceled a story mode DLC involving Trevor, one of the game's three main protagonists. Now, the actor who played the eccentric character in GTA 5 has said he “shot some stuff” for a Trevor DLC that never saw the light of day.
In a GTA 5 Q&A stream with Steven Ogg, Ned Luke and Shawn Fonteno, who played the game's three protagonists Trevor, Michael and Franklin respectively, the actors revealed some details about the planned story expansion for the game While Luke mentioned that Rockstar initially planned to continue the stories of the three career criminals, Ogg detailed a Trevor-centric DLC that was in the works.
“I forget if it was DLC, I have no idea, but Trevor was going to be undercover. He works for the feds. And we shot some of that stuff, with 'James Bond Trevor,'” Ogg told the stream. “And we recorded some stuff, and then they disappeared, and they never did and they never followed up,” he added.
Ogg was likely referring to the Trevor DLC that was discovered when GTA 5's database file was leaked in November 2023. The leaked file included a string related to Trevor, hinting at a story mode expansion for the game .
Back in 2014, Rockstar had shown off “some very exciting story mode DLC and more” in a news release, but the studio shifted its focus to delivering new updates for GTA Online and directed resources to the development of Red Dead Redemption 2, later. confirming that GTA 5 would not receive a story-based expansion. “…we don't think single-player expansions are possible or necessary, but we might do them for future projects,” Rockstar told Game Informer in 2017.
Rockstar Games has made remarkably ambitious story expansions for its past games. Grand Theft Auto 4 received two major story additions in The Lost and Damned and The Ballad of Gay Tony, both of which added new protagonists, characters and story, interconnected with the main game.
